Bryan Cranston has shared a laugh-out-loud moment from Breaking Bad that even the most dedicated fans might not have heard before.
Breaking Bad is one of the most acclaimed TV dramas of all time. It followed Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who turned to making meth after a cancer diagnosis.
Teaming up with former student Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul, Walter slowly transformed from a desperate man into a ruthless drug kingpin.
Created by Vince Gilligan, the show ran for five seasons between 2008 and 2013.
In a resurfaced interview on Hot Ones, Cranston recalled the moment he and co-star Aaron Paul decided to snack on their own on-screen meth supply… which, it turns out, was nothing more than blue rock candy.
Host Sean Evans asked Cranston about the long-standing fan curiosity about what the show’s infamous blue meth was really made of.
That’s when Cranston revealed when he first saw Paul sneak a taste.
He responded, “I never tasted it until one night, we were working in our dungeon downstairs, our lab.”
“And I see Aaron Paul reach into our product, a handful of our product, and he starts throwing the methamphetamine in his mouth. I go, ‘What are you doing? You can’t eat the product’.”
Paul, exhausted after a gruelling 17-hour shoot, was just trying to get a sugar hit.
Cranston recalled, “[Paul] goes, ‘I’m getting so tired.’ I said, ‘You’re really getting a high off this?’ It’s like, ‘Well, it’s sugar.’
“And he goes, ‘You’ve tasted it.’ I go, ‘No, I haven’t tasted it.’ He goes, ‘Oh, you should taste it.’ I go, ‘No, I don’t think so.'”
After some convincing and a bit of back-and-forth, Cranston eventually gave in.
He added, “I tasted one and it was like, ‘That’s pretty good.’ And so they rolled the camera and he and I are just talking and eating all the methamphetamine.”
While the fake meth was sweet and easy to eat, the spicy wings on Hot Ones weren’t as kind.
Cranston powered through the heat while answering questions about his career and his time on the iconic series.
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